Re:The Great A.I. Awakening
by nopinsight on Friday December 16, 2016 @02:32PM
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Defense is generally much harder than offense, in most systems. The attacker needs to find only one loophole. The defender needs to protect all of them, including the fallible humans in the loop. This is one reason even large corporations often fail against a small group of hackers.
And in the real world, not everyone exclusively uses services and systems from Google and Microsoft, presumably two of the most competent technology providers. Plenty of people also use ad hoc services set up by internal teams.
VISA, MasterCard, the US Federal Reserve, and IRS etc are a vast targets. However, while people regularly fake CC, Visa's internal systems seem safe. Suggesting defense is actually easier than offence when both sides are competent.
Further, spinning off other copies requires hardware to run them. If MS has an AI 3 go over windows source code it may be much harder to hack desktops.
Without authorial fiat a world of real world AI's may be much more stable and boring than you might think.